FOWA London’08 was awesome, the speakers were great, the audience was likewise. Now, shortly some impressions from day one (waiting for the videos of day two to be posted online):
The Future of News (Kevin Rose, digg) was interesting, I could not help not to merge it in my head with Oliver Reichenstein’s Future of News.
Languages don’t scale (Blaine Cook, ex Chief Engineer at Twitter & Joe Stump, digg) was funny and insightful. Later Blaine Cook explained how XMPP can “save” REST (Colliding Worlds: Using Jabber to make awesome web sites).
Tim Bray gave a very motivational speech, I twittered it almost all (I wonder how many followers I lost in the
process):
Interesting things spotted around: howsociable.com (from inunda.com), Swirrl.com, Zembly.com, and flexiscale.com cloud computing thing (with which I’m playing right now).